Sample Hunt: DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like Part 2?

Stlaub · 2022-10-04T22:28:44.630Z

So I know there are sites listing samples used on songs but this one has been eluding me FOREVER and I’ve never managed to track it down.

The first thing we hear on What Does Your Soul Look Like Part 2 is a little brassy/horny pastoral thing. Can anyone ID it?

It sort of reminds me a bit of Leonard Salzedo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcI6RTGj-VQ&ab_channel=OrkesterNorden but no idea.

aliberty · 2022-10-04T22:54:43.313Z

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What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4) by DJ Shadow on WhoSampled

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Stlaub · 2022-10-04T22:58:10.505Z

I don’t hear that intro in any of these though? Am I just missing it?

aliberty · 2022-10-04T23:22:40.035Z

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DJ Shadow's 'What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)' - Discover the Sample...

"What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)" by DJ Shadow contains a sample of another track. Listen to both tracks on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes.

aliberty · 2022-10-04T23:23:42.782Z

Sorry, got the wrong link

Stlaub · 2022-10-04T23:27:25.654Z

Ahh thanks so much, I’d also written the wrong song in the title of the thread.

It’s a shame the rest of the song doesn’t have the same vibe. I was secretly hoping for a full double album of spooky horn action.

maymind_trax · 2022-10-04T23:30:36.125Z

I always wonder if DJ Shadow had to clear all those samples. It seems like a nightmare to have to do today. Wish it wasn’t the case or I would use a lot more samples. This track is great though, he’s always been a favorite of mine.

onthebannedwagon · 2022-10-05T22:01:34.153Z

What about Girl Talk? I guess that’s why his album was free…

I saw DJ Shadow in NYC after Entroducing came out. That was a real snoozer… just him DJing random stuff none of which sounded like the album. Coincidentally, I saw Tricky around the same time and that show was even worse!

nfim · 2022-10-06T02:10:01.008Z

You can get away with it if they’re well disguised and you’re not too famous. Oli XL boasts that their debut album has ‘386 uncleared samples’ https://x-l.love

cane_creek · 2022-10-06T14:13:32.065Z

Just thought I’d mention, back in the day when DJ MAG reviewed “what does your soul look like part 2” it was the reviewer in that review that coined the phrase “trip hop”, that term had never been used before that review.
You probably won’t find this fact documented anywhere but I was a vinyl junkie back then and didn’t miss a thing.
And if I may add, I hate the term trip hop, I always called it instrumental hip hop before then.

johnbitwig · 2022-10-06T15:05:52.127Z

He reviewed In/flux.
Officially In/flux is the “first trip hop song”.
It came out as a single and on a Mo wax compilation. Both different edits from the one on Preemptive Strike.

Unifono · 2022-10-06T15:14:16.267Z

Love the old Shadow stuff so much!

cane_creek · 2022-10-06T15:15:46.049Z

Yeah I bought in/flux back in the day too, still have it the one with the plain light blue sleeve, so it was that review that coined the phrase, I guess my memory ain’t what it was.

looms · 2022-10-06T15:32:36.489Z

Funny timing as I came across this article just the other day and there’s a little bit about sample clearance in it.

the Guardian – 27 Jun 22

‘I accidentally invented trip-hop’ – how we made DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing

‘People said: “Nobody’s going to listen to instrumental trip-hop.” But I was thinking of huge soundscapes, like the ones by Pink Floyd or Beethoven’

Aen · 2022-10-06T17:34:12.330Z

I read an interview with DJ Shadow a long time ago (maybe around private press?) where he said that he really tries to go so obscure that clearing samples isn’t usually an issue.

But I imagine it would be a lot tougher these days!

maymind_trax · 2022-10-06T17:53:23.184Z

Good article. Times have changed, sadly, with WhoSampled kinda screwing everything up, IMO. I liked it better when you had to hunt to figure out samples yourself.

Anyway, I’ve never used any samples in my own music. Nope. Not a once.

onthebannedwagon · 2022-10-06T18:17:28.208Z

What’s the deal on copyright when sampling dialogue from tv or film?

I love the use of the Xanadu sample. Really sets the mood for the song.